BOISE, Idaho — This Day In Sports…November 24, 2018:

In a winner-take-all game for the Mountain Division title in the Mountain West, Boise State outlasts Utah State 33-24 on the blue turf to earn a spot in the conference championship game the following week at home against Fresno State. The story of the night was Broncos running back Alexander Mattison, who had eclipsed the 1,000-yard plateau on the season the week before (we talked about it here last Monday). In this one, Mattison rushed for 200 yards on 37 carries, the third-most in school history.

Mattison produced the first “two-hurdle” game of his career against Utah State, drawing a loud “ooooooohhhhhhh!” on each leap from the near-sellout crowd of 35,906. His third touchdown of the night, a one-yard insurance plunge with four s

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